Archive FRIAS Schools

Established as the international research college of the University of Freiburg during the Excellence Initiative run by Germany’s federal and state governments, the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS) was opened in spring 2008. In accordance with the maxim “strengthening strengths”, the initial phase of the Institute’s work concentrated on bringing together the four particularly predominant research fields of the University of Freiburg and organising them into four “schools”: the School of History, the School of Language & Literature, the School of Life Sciences – LifeNet and the School of Soft Matter Research. To make the college accessible to academics working in disciplines beyond these four schools and to give it a firm interdisciplinary focus, an annual competition for interdisciplinary research groups was launched in 2009.

FRIAS was run by an eight-member Board of Directors between 2007 and 2013:

The college has been continuing to pursue its activities under a new format since October 2013, the work of its four founding schools subsequently coming to an end. The schools’ archive pages provide information on their respective research profiles, fellows and academic staff, as well as the events and publications stemming from their work: